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  • (They distribute the text written phonetically, but as a German speaker, I can't read it -- I'd never realized that if you speak a language, it's very difficult to read its phonetic rendering -- so I have to look up the original text: "Freude, schoener Goetterfunken ...")

    Bruno Giussani: TED 2008 / Day 3: Origami That Could Save Lives, The Tallest Living Thing, And The Ode To Joy 2008

  • Freude, schoener Goetterfunken, that they would take neftali perez for pudge? id jump all over that …

    Lone Star Ball Adam J. Morris 2010

  • Freude, schoener Goetterfunken, that they would take neftali perez for pudge? id jump all over that …

    Lone Star Ball Adam J. Morris 2010

  • He probably should have 3 BB and 11 Ks. Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,

    Lone Star Ball Adam J. Morris 2010

  • He probably should have 3 BB and 11 Ks. Freude, schoener Goetterfunken,

    Lone Star Ball Adam J. Morris 2010

  • He finally hit upon the naive device of adding words of his own in the form of a recitative, which first appears in the sketch-book as, “Let us sing the immortal Schiller's Song, 'Freude schoener Goetterfunken.' “

    Beethoven A Character Study Fischer, George A 1905

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